http://stilgherrian.com/politics/crikey-australias-wipeout-on-the-wave-of-the-future/ All publication is a political act. All communication is propaganda. All art is pornography. All business is personal. All hail Eris. Vive les poissons rouges sauvages! Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:15:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://stilgherrian.com/politics/crikey-australias-wipeout-on-the-wave-of-the-future/#comment-12940 ABC Digital Futures » Blog Archive » Australia’s broadband lag Tue, 27 May 2008 01:07:19 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=1633#comment-12940 [...] Stilgherrian reports that Riley told last week’s Transaction 2.0 conference that the government’s planned 12Mb/sec network by 2012 is hardly impressive when other countries already do 100Mb/sec. “We’re still stuck in the dark ages,” he says. “The Australia 2020 Summit is a classic example. The Internet was seen as an ‘emerging’ industry. Emerging? We’ve had it for 20 years! In the US alone it employs 7 million people.” [...] [...] Stilgherrian reports that Riley told last week’s Transaction 2.0 conference that the government’s planned 12Mb/sec network by 2012 is hardly impressive when other countries already do 100Mb/sec. “We’re still stuck in the dark ages,” he says. “The Australia 2020 Summit is a classic example. The Internet was seen as an ‘emerging’ industry. Emerging? We’ve had it for 20 years! In the US alone it employs 7 million people.” [...]

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